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The power of one : Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine / by Fradin, Judith Bloom.(CARDINAL)371960; Fradin, Dennis B.(CARDINAL)145150;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.1110LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Bates, Daisy; Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.); African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; School integration;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992 / by Newman, Mark(Historian),author.(CARDINAL)612505;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-423) and index.Introduction: the Catholic Church and African Americans in the South and nation to 1944 -- Chapter one. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970 -- Chapter two. The sociology of religion and Catholic desegregation in the South -- Chapter three. Catholic segregationist thought in the South -- Chapter four. Progressive white Catholics in the South and civil rights -- Chapter five. White Catholics in the South and secular desegregation, 1954-1970 -- Chapter six. Desegregation of southern Catholic institutions, 1945-1970 -- Chapter seven. African American Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970 -- Chapter eight. Southern Catholics and desegregation in denominational perspective, 1945-1971 -- Chapter nine. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1971-1992 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Catholic Archdioceses and Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 2. Ordinaries of Catholic Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 3. Major Catholic Diocesan newspapers in the South, 1945-1992 -- Appendix 4. The Catholic population in the South, 1945-1980 -- Appendix 5. The African American Catholic population in the South, 1945-1975."Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining Africans Americans to the back of white churches and to black-only schools and churches. However, in the twentieth century, papal adoption and dissemination of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, pressure from some black and white Catholics, and secular change brought by the civil rights movement increasingly led the Church to address racial discrimination both inside and outside its walls. Far from monolithic, white Catholics in the South split between a moderate segregationist majority and minorities of hard-line segregationists and progressive racial egalitarians. While some bishops felt no discomfort with segregation, prelates appointed from the late 1940s onward tended to be more supportive of religious and secular change. Some bishops in the peripheral South began desegregation before or in anticipation of secular change while elsewhere, especially in the Deep South, they often tied changes in the Catholic churches to secular desegregation. African American Catholics were diverse and more active in the civil rights movement than has often been assumed. While some black Catholics challenged racism in the Church, many were conflicted about the manner of Catholic desegregation generally imposed by closing valued black institutions. Tracing its impact through the early 1990s, Newman reveals how desegregation shook congregations but seldom brought about genuine integration."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Catholic Church; African Americans; Catholics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A nation within a nation : organizing African-American communities before the Civil War / by Ernest, John.(CARDINAL)209852;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; African Americans; African American fraternal organizations; African American churches; African Americans; African American schools; African American press; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Community organization;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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We were the fire : [large print] Birmingham 1963 / by Moses, Shelia P.,author.(CARDINAL)432940;
Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.Grades 4-6Ages 10 upAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Segregation; African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Travels with Charley : in search of America / by Steinbeck, John,1902-1968.(CARDINAL)144132;
Thirty-five years ago, when "searching for America" was not yet the cliche it has since become, Steinbeck hit the highways with his French poodle, Charley. In a custom-built camper he named Rosinante after Don Quixote's steed, the two traveled the country--10,000 miles and 34 states. Their varied experiences comprise several slices of small-town, back-roads Americana. Steinbeck laments the rise of plastic-covered everything, the vacuousness of "sad souls" he encounters, and the homogenization of local and regional culture. But bright spots abound, and Steinbeck rarely forsakes his humor and his hope in the human spirit. He reluctantly swings through the segregated Deep South before he concludes his trip. Here, the ugly specter of racism pervades all, and Steinbeck's chronicle is profoundly disturbing.1010LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968; Authors, American;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Here I stand : my struggle for a Christianity of integrity, love, and equality / by Spong, John Shelby.(CARDINAL)353782;
The renowned Episcopal bishop shares his life story, focusing on his struggles with some fundamentalist Christians and Catholics to keep the love commandment at the center of Christianity by resisting efforts to institute exclusionist policies.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Spong, John Shelby.; Episcopal Church;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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A hound dog tale : Big Mama, Elvis, and the song that changed everything / by Wynne, Ben,1961-author.(CARDINAL)459716;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The Songwriters -- Big Mama -- Answers and Pretenders -- Elvis -- Epilogue."Ben Wynne's "A Hound Dog Tale" is a detailed history of the rock-and-roll standard "Hound Dog." Citing its original release and reception as a turning point in American popular culture, he reveals how the song reflected American society through issues of race, gender, and generational conflict. The story is compelling. Two white Jewish teenagers from New York and Baltimore who fantasized about being Black wrote "Hound Dog." They gave it to Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, a three-hundred-pound African American female blues belter from Alabama who was as talented as she was intimidating. "Big Mama" made the song a hit in the Black entertainment marketplace. After that, a white Las Vegas lounge singer from Philadelphia rewrote many of the lyrics and recorded an updated version. Not long afterward, an aspiring white Mississippi singer and guitar player named Elvis Presley recorded that version of the song and turned "Hound Dog" (and himself) into a global phenomenon. As Wynne points out, "Hound Dog" crossed the color line repeatedly: Black and white artists who grew up in a rigidly segregated society performed and recorded it. His history of the song includes treatments of the artists who recorded its most well-known versions-"Big Mama" Thornton and Elvis-along with the comings and goings of many others involved in the tune's story. The cast of characters is large and eclectic, including singers, songwriters, and musicians from the worlds of R&B, rock-and-roll, and country music, both honest and unscrupulous record producers and managers, famous television hosts, a couple of lawyers, and even a gangster or two. "Hound Dog" ties all these people together against dramatically changing times during the 1950s. "A Hound Dog Tale" is sure to be of interest to historians who study American cultural history, the 1950s, R&B, and rock-and-roll, or the role of race in American popular music. In addition, R&B, blues, and rock-and-roll music enthusiasts in the United States and abroad will be interested, as will many of the countless fans of Elvis Presley"--
Subjects: Music criticism and reviews.; Stoller, Mike.; Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.; Stoller, Mike.; Leiber, Jerry.; Thornton, Big Mama.; Rock music; Blues (Music); Music and race;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Garretts of Columbia : a Black South Carolina family from slavery to the dawn of integration / by Nicholson, David,1951-author.(CARDINAL)885231;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.Confessions of a Weary Integrationist -- The African -- Transcription of Dublin Hunter's Manumission Document -- Mr. Washington Comes to Columbia -- Finding Papa -- "Tell Them We Are Rising" -- Papa Returns to Columbia -- The Light -- Martha's Trials -- "For Editor of the A. M. E. Church Review" -- Change and the Great War -- Patriotism at Home -- Mama Comes into Her Own -- "We Are as Well as Common" -- The Editor and the Bishop, 1917-25 -- Beginnings and Departures -- Papa Returns to Allen -- Tap's Almost Success -- Mills -- Fiftieth Anniversary and Nearing the End -- Mills in Haiti -- Mills Returns to America -- Death and Funerals -- And Their Children after Them -- They, Too, Sang America."A writer in search of his roots discovers stories of African American struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. In The Garretts of Columbia, author David Nicholson tells a multigenerational story of Black hope and resilience. Carefully researched and beautifully written, The Garretts of Columbia engages readers with stories of a family whose members believed in the possibility of America. Nicholson relates the sacrifices, defeats, and affirming victories of a cohort of stalwart men and women who embraced education, fought for their country, and asserted their dignity in the face of a society that denied their humanity and discounted their abilities. The letters of Anna Maria 'Mama' Threewitts Garrett, along with other archival sources and family stories passed down through generations, provided the framework that allowed Nicholson to trace his family's deep history, and with it a story about Black life in segregated Columbia, SC, from the years after the Civil War to World War II."--
Subjects: Family histories.; Garrett family.; Nicholson, David, 1951-; African American families;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The pool is closed : segregation, summertime, and the search for a place to swim / by Palmer, Hannah S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: July 2017. we need a pool -- Part 1: lost waters -- Part 2: pool hopping -- Part 3: the offseason "In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta? Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South? Should they just join the Y? But these weren't just parenting questions. In the South, how we swim-and whether we have access to water at all-is tied up in race and class. As she took her sons pool-hopping across Atlanta, Palmer found an intimate lens through which to view the city's neighborhoods. In The Pool Is Closed, she documents the creeks behind fences, the springs in the sewers, the lakes that had all but vanished since her own parents learned to swim. In the process, she uncovers complex stories about environmental history, water policy, and the racial politics of public spaces. Nothing prepared Palmer for the contamination, sewage, and bodies that appear when you look at water too long. Her search for water became compulsive, a way to make sense of the world. The Pool Is Closed is a book about water: where it flows and where it floods, who owns it, and what it costs. It's also a story about embracing parenthood in a time of environmental catastrophe and political anxiety, of dwindling public space and natural resources. It chronicles a year-long quest to find a place to swim and finding, instead, what makes shared water so threatening and wild." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Water; Public spaces; Discrimination in sports.; Swimming pools; Swimming pools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Let us fight as free men : black soldiers and civil rights / by Knauer, Christine.(CARDINAL)350427;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Fighting for respect -- Coming home -- Stepping up the fight -- Mass civil disobedience -- Truman's order -- A country they never knew -- Black men at war -- A mixed army."Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks. In the years after World War II, the integration of the armed forces was a touchstone in the homefront struggle for equality -- though its importance is often overlooked in contemporary histories of the civil rights movement. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from press reports and newspapers to organizational and presidential archives, historian Christine Knauer recounts the conflicts surrounding black military service and the fight for integration. Let Us Fight as Free Men shows that, even after their service to the nation in World War II, it took the persistent efforts of black soldiers, as well as civilian activists and government policy changes, to integrate the military. In response to unjust treatment during and immediately after the war, African Americans pushed for integration on the strength of their service despite the oppressive limitations they faced on the front and at home. Pressured by civil rights activists such as A. Philip Randolph, President Harry S. Truman passed an executive order that called for equal treatment in the military. Even so, integration took place haltingly and was realized only after the political and strategic realities of the Korean War forced the Army to allow black soldiers to fight alongside their white comrades. While the war pushed the civil rights struggle beyond national boundaries, it also revealed the persistence of racial discrimination and exposed the limits of interracial solidarity. Let Us Fight as Free Men reveals the heated debates about the meaning of military service, manhood, and civil rights strategies within the African American community and the United States as a whole."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
Subjects: African American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945; Korean War, 1950-1953; African Americans; African Americans; Segregation;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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